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#FICP Just Pulled Off a Masterclass in Creating Meaningful Connections

Smart Meetings

When more than 750 financial and insurance conference professionals converged at JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes the first week of November for FICP Annual Conference 2018, the message that event professionals need to move from simply managing logistics to helping people make meaningful connections was loud and clear in word and deed.

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6 tips to bring your brand to life with an event chat bot

Eventbase

Most importantly, they provide brands with an invaluable event concierge service that acts as a round-the-clock connection between brand and audience. In early 2017, Eventbase became the first event app to launch a fully integrated chatbot as part of the app at SXSW with chat bot Abby. Airport line was 200+ people.

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#FICP Just Pulled Off a Masterclass in Creating Meaningful Connections

Smart Meetings

When more than 750 financial and insurance conference professionals converged at JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes the first week of November for FICP Annual Conference 2018, the message that event professionals need to move from simply managing logistics to helping people make meaningful connections was loud and clear in word and deed.

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The Best Ways to Answer Attendee Questions

Cvent: Event Marketing

Even worse, most questions come up as the event gets closer and closer – right when you’re entering crunch time. Before Cvent CONNECT 2018 , we got a lot of questions from attendees – some easy to answer, some difficult, and a few that caught us completely off-guard. Top Ten Questions from Cvent CONNECT 2018.

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Adapting Your Code of Conduct for Virtual Events

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

At first, we (spoiler: naively) thought it’d be fine to re-use the document we’d produced for our in-person conference in 2018. As such, I wanted to share some of what we altered and what we learned during this exercise in the hopes that it helps others who are also adjusting to the new normal in our industry.

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The Mistakes I Made; Reflections on Nine Years.

EventTechBrief

Build a giant event app company? We were going to build Google AdWords for conference advertisers on the back of our event footprint (alas, it didn’t work). We did end up mostly fixing our fundamentals through a disciplined, focused 2018. I completely overdid physical exercise. Not big enough.

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The Complete Guide to Event Marketing 2023

Stova

Refining your event elevator pitch is an essential and worthwhile exercise. Any opportunity to succinctly share details of the event and act as an ambassador should never be missed. This exercise will also identify where potential tools can be used and their primary purpose.